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Caroline, or Change the Musical - Mr. Stopnick and Emmie Lyrics
MR. STOPNICK:
Yes I know it worked just dandy
For that Indian Mister Ghandi
But with respect for Martin Luther King?
EMMIE:
I think it's a negro thing,
A southern thing,
A Christian thing;
Mister, you don't understand
How Dr. King has got things planned.
MR. STOPNICK:
Oh Jews can be nonviolent too.
There's nothing meeker than a Jew!
Listen girlie, we have learned:
Nonviolence will get you burned.
EMMIE:
No I'm sorry that ain?t so.
Listen to the radio.
What we're trying's already working!
Segregation's already dying!
MR. STOPNICK:
I been on the earth a while?
ROSE:
Papa, this is Emmie
Emmie this is Mr. Stopnick, he--
MR. STOPNICK:
Your optimism makes me smile.
Good for you you're optimistic!
But I think it ain't realistic.
EMMIE:
I'd like to know how you come to feel
You know so much about what is real,
Sitting safe and high and pretty,
Way up north in New York City?
I'd like to know!
CAROLINE:
Emmie!
EMMIE:
Mama?
CAROLINE:
I said quit!
EMMIE:
He the one that started it!
ROSE:
You know I was reading in the paper just the other day?
EMMIE:
I'd like to know how
Some guy just off a plane marchin in to explain,
Guess you seen it all plain from the air?
It our affair
Now our resistance
Start to make a difference
Here come your 'assistance.'
MR. STOPNICK: (with Emmie)
Is that so?
Why's it so impossible to know,
White or Jew or negro
If the boss's boot's in your face
What do you do? Shed a tear?
Keep lying there?
A face knows it's no footrest
Regardless of religion or race!
CAROLINE:
Child you hear me?! Hush your mouth!
March that tray back to the kitchen!
MR. STOPNICK:
Lady, please, since I come south,
She's my first real conversation.
Let her stay!
CAROLINE:
It's past her bed.
ROSE:
It's good that she's high-spirited!
CAROLINE:
Yes'm. Thank you.
We'll start cleaning in the kitchen, then go home.
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Caroline or Change lyrics Mr. Stopnick and Emmie
Caroline, or Change the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
16 Feet Beneath The Sea
The Radio
Laundry Quintet
Noah Down The Stairs
The Cigarette
Laundry Finish
The Dryer
I Got Four Kids
Caroline, There's Extra Food
There Is No God, Noah
Rose Stopnick Can Cook
Long Distance
Dotty and Caroline
Moon Change
Moon Trio
The Bus
That Can't Be
Noah and Rose
Inside / Outside
JFK
No One Waitin
Night Mamma
Gonna Pass Me A Law
Noah, Go To Sleep
Noah Has A Problem
Stuart and Noah
Quarter In The Bleach Cup
Caroline Takes My Money Home
Roosevelt Petrucius Coleslaw
Santa Comin' Caroline
Little Reward
1943
Mr. Gellman's Shirt
Ooh Child
Rose Recovers
I Saw Three Ships
The Chanukah Party
Dotty and Emmie
Mr. Stopnick and Emmie
Kitchen Fight
A Twenty Dollar Bill and Why
I Hate The Bus
Moon, Emmie and Stuart Trio
The Twenty Dollar Bill
Caroline and Noah FIght
Aftermath
Sunday Morning
Lot's Wife
Salty Teardrops
Why Does Our House Have A Basement?
Underwater
Epilogue
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